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The Christmas Can- Can
It is no secret that I LOVE Christmas. This season has always been the time of year that I look forward since I was younger than my kids are now. Yes at the time, the presents were the main attraction, but around the age my kids are now, those pre-teen years which are filled with…
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Best Laid Plans
Well I started this fall with lofty ambitions of writing weekly themed posts. Those went to hell when we had a death in the family and a new job came into play. The death threw off my rhythm, stealing a couple of weeks of time as we dealt with the funeral and processed and the…
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Orphaned
On September 11, 2025, just before dinner time, I became an orphan at 45 years old. My mother passed away in 2006 after fighting through kidney failure and multiple heart attacks for years and a week ago, as I’m writing this, my father passed away after a short battle with multi-systems cancer. And try as…
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The Clothes We Wear
When it comes to what I wear at church, I’ve never been one of those people who owned a suit and tie, and honestly even really bother to pull out a polo for church. That isn’t who I am the rest of the week and knowing that God wants the authentic person to walk through…
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The Outdoors
A couple of weeks ago, I helped feed the local BSM group. Due to construction at the university, we were moved to a new location this year which placed us on a patio area adjacent to one of the courtyards on campus. As we served the students, memories of my time at college flooded my…
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Dirty Hands
Growing up, my hands were always dirty. Whether I was playing in a sandbox in our backyard, helping move pipes and tubes on the farm, or tending to one of the many gardens our family had, dirt was a part of life that we didn’t avoid in my childhood. Which is why today when my…
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The Hymns We Sing – Victory In Jesus
“1, 2, 3, 4, 1 Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! Victory! I heard and old, old…” One of my favorite versions of this song is sung by David and one of his daughters Callie Phelps on his Hymnal Album released in 2017. The beginning of this song where Victory! Is shouted eight times…
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Coming This Fall
As we enter the fall season, while I won’t be partaking in the Pumpkin Spice nastiness, I am shifting my life a bit to start a new day. I’ve taken a job that will require me to work at night, which honestly is my preferred time to be awake anyway. I worked nights for a…
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Trying Again…Again – Death
I have watched people die. As an EMT, I’ve been in the presence of a body separated from its soul as we fought to reunite the two. As a child and grandchild, I’ve sat beside a loved one as they’ve taken their final breath. Each event is as traumatic and life altering as the next.…
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Dinner Unplugged
Does anyone sit down to eat as a family anymore on a regular basis? Is my family the only ones intentionally taking that time to spend together to hear about each other’s days? Is that something lost to the sands of time, space, and the forever flickering of a screen? Our family does it’s very…
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J.Rhett Lively 